Pocket-book.



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UNITED STATES PATENT QEEICEa JOSEPH DAVIDSON, OFFORRESTVILLE, MRYLAND.

POCKET-Boo K.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent I\To. 645,460, dated March13, 1900. Apprmiun nea June 9, 1899. senti No. 719,946. (No moda.)

To @ZZ whom it may concern.- f

Be it known that I, JOSEPH DAVIDSON, a subject of the Emperor of Russia,residing at Forrestville, in the county of Prince George and State ofMaryland, have invented certainV ings; and the object is to provide apocketl book with a fastening device which is unique,

novel, and useful; and the invention consists in the novel constructionand combination of parts, as will be hereinafter fully described, 'andthen particularly pointed out in the claim.

I have fully and clearly illustrated my invention in the accompanyingdrawings, wherein= Figure 1 is a front view in elevation of apocket-book with my improvements applied thereto in locked condition.

Fig. 2 is a vertical central transverse section through the pocketbook.Fig. 3 is a top plan view of a pocket-book with my improvements applied.Fig. 4 is a view of the two-part or iiap pocketbook having myimprovements applied.

Referring to the drawings, A designates a pocket-bookof the bellows orextension variety provided with an overlapping flap 1, adapted to lieover and against the front of the book, as indicated in Figs. 1 and 2.In the front plate a of the book is secured a screweye 2, the eye ofvwhich is adapted to be projected through a suitable opening 3, made inthe iiap l of the pocket-book, as indicated in Figs. l and 2 of thedrawings. Secured to the frontplate a is a strap 4, in the free end ofwhich is fastened a disk or medal 5, of any suitable design, or a ringmay be substituted for the disk or medal. At the other end of the frontplate or iiap of the pocket-book is secured another strap 6,substantially of the same length'as the strap 4 and carrying on its freeend a ring 7, which incloses the strap 4, as indicated in the drawings.

The inverted-V-shaped straps secured at their lower ends to the outsideof the pocketbook and extending above the pocket-book serve a twofoldpurposeeviz., that of snspending the pocketbook from the wearers waistand as a tie-band when the device is not worn. This is readilyaccomplished for the reason that there are no surplus Iiaps attached tothe pocket-book to interfere with the wrap# ping and tying.

B designates a bar, which constitutes the lock or fastener of thepocket-book and in lock; ing condition and arrangement is slidingly anddetachably projected through the eye 2. In the bar B are formed twoinclined and longitudinally-arranged slots 8 9, the slot 8 beingsubstantially twice the length of the slot 9 in order that suflicientroom or space may be afforded for the passage of the disk or ring 5 inthe operation of unlocking the pocket-book,

as hereinafter speciiied.- The strap 4 is loosely passed through theslot 8, and the strap 6 is loosely passed through the slot 9 of the barB. I have shown it as consisting in contour ofa miniature gun. The strap6 is permanent-ly retained in the slot 9'; but in the manipula= tions ofthe parts in unlocking the pocketbook the strap 4, with the ring or diskon the end, is passed through and free of the slot 8. It is obvious'thatin forming the slots in the bar one of the slots is somewhat longer thanthe other, for the reason that when the ring is manipulated in passingthe same over the end ofthe bar the lengthwise play in the longest slotpermits the bar to move endwise, when the ring can be easily carriedover the end of said bar.

To unlock the pocket-book, the ring 7 is slipped down on the strap 4until the bar B is reached, when the ring is carried outward and passedover the end of the bar and then moved back along the bar untilsufficient slot-space is provided for the passage of the ringer disk ofstrap 4. This ring or disk 5 is then passed through the slot 8, and thenthe ring 7 is moved outward over and free from the end of the bar, andthen the bar may be pulled back free from the eye 2, and the flap isthen free to be opened and the interior of vthe pocket-book accessible.To lock the pocket-book, the iiap is turned into proper position withthe eye projecting, and then the bar B is drawn back and passed throughthe eye. The ring 7 is then brought down and passed over the end of thebar and drawn back thereon until slotspace for the disk is made. Thedisk 5 is then IOO izo

passed up through the slot, and then the ring 7 is movedforward overand'free from the end of the bar, and the book slocked;

It will be observed that the end wall of the slots are inclined in thedirection of the-in- I clines of the straps when extended, therebypreserving the edgesof the straps from'abrasure and Wear in ordinary useand also in manipulation of the straps in the process of opening thepocket-book. This construction alsov holds the bar against lateralmovement Whenv the strapsare extended and the book is held insuspension.

Of course small chains-maybe substituted pocketbook-,wherein theopposite rims offthe frame ofthe book are provided withcoincil dentvandaliniug eyes ax b, through which the bar B is passed, as indicated intheldrawings. The manipulations in locking'and unlocking in this styleare identical with that ofthe single ring or eye fastening.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secureby Letters-Patlent, isl The combination with the pocket-book and strapshaving the ring and disk secured at `t'heirnpper end of the barconstructed with .the long and short slots to receive said straps thelonger slot, adapted to give sufficient lengthwise play `Jtothe bar-inmanipulating said barandringrjinfastening and unfasten- .ing the book,all arranged as herein shown and described. v

In testimony whereof Iafx. my signature in presence of two WitnesSee:A

JOSEPH; DAVIDSON. WitneseszY A. G; HEYLMAN,A EDGARV H. BATES.

